CITY NEWS Tipper crushes two in Kubwa FCTA demolishes shanties in Kado district
Atipper conveying gravel has crashed into eight people at Arab Junction in Kubwa, Abuja, killing two of them on the spot and injuring six others.
A witness, Ali Dan-Hadeja, who also participated in evacuating the victims, told City News, yesterday, that vehicle was coming from a quarry along the Arab road, Kubwa, when the driver lost control and crashed into people at the junction.
He said the driver’s assistant was heard shouting and warning the crowd which usually gathered at the junction to board vehicles or cross the road, to vacate the area but the people did not heed his warning.
“We evacuated two bodies instantly while the injured ones were taken by the security men to Kubwa General hospital,” he added.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Muideen Lasisi, confirmed that two corpses were brought to the hospital.
A trader at the junction, who did not give his name, said among the six injured people, five were commercial motorcyclists while the other one was a corps member.
When contacted, the Kubwa Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ayobami Surajudeen, said the police were aware of the incident and that two persons lost their lives in the accident.
He added that the truck driver was also injured and was taken to a private hospital in the town, but was later transferred to the Kubwa General hospital for better medical attention. The Department of Development Control under the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA), yesterday, demolished shanties in Kado district behind the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja.
The Deputy Director, Monitoring and Enforcement, Mr. Garba Kwamkur, who led the demolition exercise told reporters that the shanties had become settlement for hoodlums.
Our reporter observed that the area harboured commercial sex workers from some parts of West Africa such as Benin Republic, Cameroun and Togo. One of them was heard telling her friend that they should return to their country as there was no demolition there.
Kwamkur said the residents were staying in the settlement illegally as the land had since been allocated to its legal owners.
He added that “The developers will be served a timeframe to come and develop their plots so that all these illegal settlement will be aborted or we will revoke the land,” he said.
He also said that the people occupying the shanties illegally were initially sensitised and informed that they should relocate from the land or be forced out.